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e. T. WRIGHT. Combined Liquid Measure and Funnel.

No. 221,137. Patented Oct. 28,1879.

wewmg UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

CHARLES T. WRIGHT, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEM ENT IN COMBINED LIQUID-MEASURE AND FUNNEL.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 221,137, dated October28, 1879 application filed April 15, 1879. v

. being had to the accompanying drawings, and

to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

The object of this invention is to obviate the necessity of separatelyhandling a funnel and measuring-cup when it is desired to measureliquids into jugs, bottles,'and the like, and

' also to prevent spilling in pouring liquids from acup into a funnel. I

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of myinvention. resents the cup tilted as when its contents are being pouredinto the funnel. Fig. 3 is a view of the funnel detached.

1 The letter A indicates a measuring-cup, and

B is a funnel hinged thereto a short distance below the lip a. From thecup, just below the hinge b, a bracket or arm, 0, projects a proper Idistance to support the funnel in a vertical position when not in useand the cup is in a .similar position, so that the nozzle of the funnelmay be readily inserted into the month of a jug or bottle by a personholding the handle of the cup without separately handling the funnel.This is particularly advantageous in measuring coal-oil, molasses, andother liquids which soil the hands, as the funnel. is always more orless smeared with the liquid being measured. A portion is cut out fromthe top of the funnel, as shown at d, and it is the lower edge of therecess thus formed that is hinged closely to the cup, the hinge being atsuch distance from the top thereof that when the cup is tilted into thefunnel its lip will come Fig. 2 repnearly over the orifice and well downinto the flaring portion, so that, however awkward might be the personmeasuring, to spill theliquid would be scarcely possible.

I am aware that a measuringcup has been constructed with a funnelprojecting from its top in lieu of the ordinary lip; but in using such acup the liquid is liable to flow through the funnel before the nozzlecan be inserted in the bottle or jug.

I know, also, that a funnel has been loosely linked to a measuring-cup,so that it can be turned upon the cup as a cap or lid; but a funnel solinked requires to be handled directly in order to place it in the mouthof a jug or bottle. I do not claim either of these inventions.

What I claim is- 1. A measuring-cup having a funnel hinged thereto belowits lip, and provided'with a' projection which supports the funnel in anapproximately vertical position alongside the cup when the latter is ina similar position, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the cup and funnel hinged togethersubstantially as described, of a bracket or arm interposed. between saidfunnel and cup, below the point at which they are hinged together, formaintaining the funnel .in an approxii'nately vertical position when thecup is in a similar position, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the measuring-cup, of the funnel having arecess in its wall, and hinged to the cup at the edge of said recess,-snbstantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own invent-ion Iaffixhereto my signature in presence of two witnesses.

w CHARLES T. WRIGHT.

Witnesses:

WM. B. HALE, r MAURICE SoLoMoN.

